[cups.bugs] [LOW] STR #3984: D-Bus notifier sends malformed messages when encountering invalid utf8 strings

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Fri Oct 19 04:13:29 PDT 2012


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[STR Closed w/Resolution]

libdbus now performs strict checking for UTF8 validity in string
parameters. This causes an assertion failure when a required attribute is
not valid UTF-8.

I think the scheduler ought to validate UTF8 strings provided by clients.

Example assertion failure caused by this:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863387

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L3984
Version: 1.5.0
Fix Version: 1.6-current (r10155)





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